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Founded in 1994, Amazon Inc. is the world's largest ecommerce retailer. The company currently employs more than 43,200 people in 18 U.S. states and 14 international locations. Its headquarters are in Seattle, Wash.

In Amazon's mission statement, the company says it's working towards becoming "Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online." Millions of new and used items are sold on Amazon.com, Zappos.com, Endless.com, Shopbop.com and on its international web properties.

Items available for purchase include books, movies, music, games, sportswear, automotive parts and more. Founder Jeff Bezos started selling only books on Amazon.com in 1995. During the first 30 days online, customers in 50 states and 45 countries ordered items. He shipped packages from his Seattle garage. In 2007, the company dove back into the books industry by introducing the Amazon Kindle ebook reader. There are over more than a million books, newspapers and magazines available for purchase on the Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire.

Amazon ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, is real and it’s ready to help you consume an endless list of books for $9.99 a month. The formerly rumored service launched on Friday with little more fanfare than a promotional YouTube video. The...

When he was still in high school, Jeff Bezos designed his own mini summer camp for fourth through sixth graders. Precociously enough, he called it the DREAM Institute, and charged $600 a pop. Bezos was a voracious reader, and the DREAM Institute was ...

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